Henning's Headquarters

[Karl Henning]

Scarcely do the twain meet

[Cato]

Scarcely do the twain meet

Has an impulse to tinker with the scores from the past popped up?

I understand the lack of desire to spend time transferring things manually from one format to another: it seems like one is standing still artistically, or going in reverse, by spending time on re-copying a past work.

[Karl Henning]

Lux Nova will be represented at a flute convention in New Orleans this August, and I have been asked to bring out any with-flute music which is not already in the Lux Nova hopper.

Separetely: in rather a queer chance, I found a post I had made to the (now long-defunct) New York Times classical music forum, exactly eleven years ago to-day.

[Karl Henning]

In hindsight, that is the piece which set my feet on the slippery slope of unaccompanied clarinet music mania . . . .

[Cato]

In hindsight, that is the piece which set my feet on the slippery slope of unaccompanied clarinet music mania . . . .

Soon to appear in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders!   0:)

Probably right up there with "Caffeine Withdrawal Syndrome"    and "Delusion that Vin Diesel is an Actor Mania"   

[Karl Henning]

(* sobs quietly *)

[kishnevi]

Pace, amico.

It is only accompanied clarinet music mania which requires support and intervention.   

Unaccompanied clarinet music  mania can be dealt with by the sufferer with his own resources*



*as long as those resources include a clarinet

[Karl Henning]

And I thought this street corner had that already-sobbed-in look . . . .

[Cato]

And I thought this street corner had that already-sobbed-in look . . . .

   

Maybe it depends on the clarinet!  Bb or A or Eb?

Maybe it depends on the clarinetist!   

[Karl Henning]

Hah! Like that ol' "Laughing Blues"

http://www.youtube.com/v/0Db5Nqq9j1Q

[Karl Henning]

For them what do not wish to listen to the whole thing, the pertinent clarinet-playing:

http://youtu.be/0Db5Nqq9j1Q?t=2m51s

[Karl Henning]

Kids, don't try playing this piece at home

[Karl Henning]

It appears to be true: I am done with Starlings on the Rooftop, Op.82, and it's on the knees of my publisher. He had a great suggestion, too:  make clarinet a possible substitution for the corno inglese.  I originally wrote the piece for our own jochanaan's group, Second Winds, and he had kind (yet professional) things to say of the score lately.

This Sunday, I shall see if I cannot get at least one of either Radiant Maples or the Fragments of « Morning Has Broken » done, via the arguably-easier method of importing a PDF.

[Cato]

Kids, don't try playing this piece at home

At first I thought it was a score by Ferneyhough!  0:)

P.D.Q. Bach also came to mind! 

[Karl Henning]

I couldn't have done that intentionally . . . .

[Karl Henning]

I think my favorite part is the sempre meno

[Karl Henning]

And there was morning, and there was evening. And lo! the Opus 64a was finito.

[Karl Henning]

Now that the Op. 59 is a wrap (again), I am back into production of The Mystic Trumpeter as of to-morrow morning.

[Karl Henning]

All in all, The Grand 2013 Henningmusick Re-Rollout has been an overridingly positive experience.  I have managed to get Sibelius 6 files to the publisher for:

Three Short Pieces (organ), Op.34
Radiant Maples, Op.59
Fragments of « Morning Has Broken », Op.64a
Starlings on the Rooftop, Op.82
Studies in Impermanence, Op.86
Nunc dimittis, Op.87, № 9

. . . and the experience of (perforce) having to put new composition on hold, while sawing away at a task which brought a fair number of "old scores" under my eye, gave me the chance (potentially) to grow heartily sick of (it might have been) embarrassing early work.  But — even if none is The Masterpiece which would show some of our neighbors here that the Art of Composition has not forever died out of the race — I find all the pieces to be well made, still, and I just enjoy the sound of them all, still.

And (but wait — there's more!) I find myself freshly enthused to attend to The Mystic Trumpeter.  Yes, I did some composing on this morning's train.

[Karl Henning]

May not seem like much, but it is a significant gain on the prior sketch (which dates, yes, more than two years ago).

Jaya is still on board!

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